Disney's first black princess

what about Pocahontas??? She was in America first!

It's a movie -

made for children -

relax, people, and just enjoy it.

wow, i am so going to watch this.

(i watched every Disney movie)

I can't judge it until I see it. I do like the concept, it's different but not. I am excited about it. I know my nieces will love it. i got them the Disney princess toddler set and they wrote all over the blond's faces..... they're only 2 lol.

It's about time!!.. but they should of modernized it a little, and come up with a better storyline, not the typical princess and frog crap.

Finally. It took Disney long enough. I guess they thought the Lion King was a Black cartoon since it took place in Africa.

This is something to think about. Y what is the real reason they are doing a story on a black princess.

hahahahaha I think it will be funny when my daughter ask how come her hair is so straight... by the way I would like to see some white people saying how great every other year has been ... Swiyyah thank you for making my race look even more stupid by saying its been a great year remember Disney is owned by white guys and Obama is going down and he’s half white anyways!!!!!!!

When - you wish... Upon a star
Makes no dif-frence - who - you - are...

When you wish upon a star
Your dreams come true

The key idea here is not the race aspect of this film, it's the princess concept itself.
The princess concept is wrong, and promotes the wrong ideas into children's heads about their values. It has to do with women's portrayal in our children's entertainment teaching us that young women need to be saved. In this respect, characters such as Mulan would not fall into the cattegory of princesses. Pocahontas could be ambivalent.
The Disney princess concept is outdated and old. There shouldn't be a film about a black princess, it should be about a black female heroine.

The key idea here is not the race aspect of this film, it's the princess concept itself.
The princess concept is wrong, and promotes the wrong ideas into children's heads about their values. It has to do with women's portrayal in our children's entertainment teaching us that young women need to be saved. In this respect, characters such as Mulan would not fall into the cattegory of princesses. Pocahontas could be ambivalent.
The Disney princess concept is outdated and old. There shouldn't be a film about a black princess, it should be about a black female heroine.

Will she leave a shoe behind... or a bucket of KFC!?

SORRY! I had to say it! It's a plain joke :D

I am sure it is coming because minorities will run America in the next couple decades, and influence will come more from the minorities than the white common people because most or all of the minorities have culture and the west always wants of piece of new culture. I would bet money that Disney starts making more movies or get more minorities involved with their programming and broadcasting.

good year for black people? that's funny.

Hooray. Now my future daughter will have unrealistic ideas about body and beauty. She too can be obsessed with pink and whatever it is princesses do. Which, last I checked, is nothing.

I guess I really don't see the big deal here.

Perfect timing. A new princess character for my 5 year old daughter. Will her generation see the significance of having a half white half black president.

The Daily Show did a bit about this a long time ago. It is hilarious.

cool first black pres and now the first black princess. cant wait to watch this. gonna go watch this with my niece.

"...at the expense of Cajuns?" Indeed. This firefly or whatever he is almost makes Adam Sandler's portrayal of a Cajun in The Waterboy look inspired. This is bullshit. I am sick and tired of my Cajun heritage being completely insulted every time someone needs a good laugh in a flick.

You know why Cajuns are too often portrayed as toothless imbeciles?...because until the 1950's or so, Cajuns were discriminated against and treated as 2nd class citizens....especially from those (French Catholic) from, of all places, New Orleans. Public funds in the form of education reform never really trickled down to our neck of the woods. We were considered backwoods hillbillies because we could live off the land in peace. People from New Orleans aren't really Cajun. Some are. Most are Creole. That isn't even properly captured in film and television.

So if you are African-American and you don't like the way they portray a stereotypical black man as an uneducated, drug-dealer, wouldn't you be upset? If you are of Asian descent and you didn't like the way someone always portrays Asians as super friggin' ninjas, wouldn't that upset you?

I don't want to cry racism, but seriously! We may not be a race, but we are an acknowledged ethnic group living within the borders of America. Come on! I mean doesn't anybody agree that I have a point to make? Disney is horse shit.

Check out something I recently posted. This is very Cajun. Note the intact syntax and many complete pairs of teeth.

http://current.com/items/89830271/giant_omelette_celebration_abbeville_la.htm

Good for you, Disney. Let's piggy-back over the Cajuns on the way to reaching out for the African-American wallet. We Cajuns don't make that much money from shrimpin' and fur-trappin' anyway...suck it, Disney.

I agree that this can be offensive, but if you've ever been to New Orleans, Voo Doo shops are definitely on every street corner. Which isn't to say that everyone practices it, but it's definitely very relevant.
Perhaps what everyone means by Disney princess is that she's a female animated Disney character. People refer to most Disney females as Disney princesses even if they aren't technically 'princesses'. Like Mulan and Pocahontas. Who knows? Maybe Tiana is the daughter of the mayor or something.
I, for one, hope they brush up on the beignets!

First off, good for Disney.
Second off, most of you need to learn how to spell correctly.

Also, Jasmine was a different ethnicity too :). I think that if Disney gets back into the princess biz, there will be all colors of princess created, but I think part of the reason that most of the Disney princesses are European is that the fairy tales they are based on were European. (I know that Cinderella was originally Chinese, but the movie was on the European version of the story) If they use a fairy tale from another culture, the princess will probably be from that culture.

America doesn't have royalty, this is weird. But I don't find the use of voodoo offensive, voodoo is a real religion and it's practiced by a lot of Africans, African-Americans, and Caribbean Americans. It's not offensive to European-Americans to be connected with witchcraft in a Disney movie, is it?

I think that it is great that Disney is making another princess movie (because Enchanted did not count as one). I dont think they are trying to "improve relations" or "stereotype" black people/cajun culture, I think they were trying to find something original (instead of the european girl who likes to clean and talk to animals). I think the voodoo deal was just another version of the typical witch and fairy magic that has become quite cliche in princess stories.
Also, I think that Pocahautas doesnt count so much as a princess because she was not from a fairy tale, but from "actual" history (however much altered). Also, she was technically the cheif's daughter, and that doesnt come with alot of the princess's typical lifestyle and role. I think that she and Mulan and Alice (from Wonderland) dont quite get into the "princess group", even though they were awesome.

Wait this is the first Disney story with an American Princess? Ummm aside from the Native Americans, when has America ever had a princess? On that note Disney did make a Pocahontas movie and Pocahontas was a princess living in America...what is she now chopped liver? Or because she was Native American does she not count as American.

Not trying to read too much into a silly Disney movie....just pointing a few flaws out ;)

Voo doo.......? I agree with asherp and why not a brown princess and a yellow princess....

Why would they include voodoo in the story line?
Is it because black people in New Orleans is thought to pratice voodoo?

Something tells me that they did not think this out to clearly.... just the thought is offensive to me as an American black woman....

I think they could have done a nicer story line... without any hints of racial stereotype....

all im saying is... y did the firely helper dude hav 2 be a crackhead????? come on now disney u can do better than that....

It never even ocurred to me that Disney didn't have a black princess

interesting

also, wasn't this originally called "the frog princess"? i think i remember hearing about this a year or so agoe.

isn't this like the first actual animated (as in, not pixar cgi) disney movie in quite some time as well?

Ugh. I went to the disney site, and watched the preview.

So, they're improving their race relations with blacks, at the expense of Cajuns?

The whole thing just makes my skin crawl. It takes place in New Orleans... what time period?
How is this girl even a princess? WTF?!

It all just seems so trite and full of pretense.

i want a brown princess and a yellow princess!

cant wait to see it :)